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You have heard the saying " A journey of 1,000 miles starts with a single step." What Lao Tzu said over 2,000 years ago still holds true today. Zero waste living is a journey. You can easily get lost, turned around and constantly overwhelmed. The most important thing to keep in mind it is not about how quickly you finish your journey, the most important part is that you start and stay persistent toward your goal. Don't feel you need to do all 5 of these to be zero waste. Pick the ones you know you can do and stick...

Buying water bottles isn't the best thing to do for your wallet, the world or your health. In 2008 Americans drank 9 billion gallons of bottled water. That works out to 30 gallons per person and some serious dough for the water bottle industry.The price mark up on water bottles can easily exceed 1000 percent. To put it in perspective essentialcare.co is located in California where the price of tap water per gallon is one tenth of a cent(.001) and the price of a gallon of bottled water is .90 cent. Making it 900 times more expensive to buy bottled...